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This area is called the executive center and this executive center governs the

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behavior below and allows us the freedom of options to allow

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us to act with wisdom instead of just emotional reaction.

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This particular topic is why developing your executive center

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is so important in your life and why it matters in your daily life.

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And you may not be familiar with the term, the executive center,

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but let me just develop it.

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You've probably seen somewhere in your life,

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an image of a doctor taking a reflex hammer and hitting a knee where

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somebody's knees over another knee and causing the muscle to

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jerk and kick up in the air.

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And this is called a deep tendon reflex.

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It is what is called a monosynaptic reflex.

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A synapse is a junction between two nerves.

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And so when you hit the reflex hammer on the knee,

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the tendon is distended you might say,

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and as a result of it,

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it sends nerve reflexes into the spinal cord and it joins

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to a muscle, a nerve that goes to a muscle,

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so you have a sensory nerve and a motor nerve coming out, and one synapse,

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which is a junction between these nerves. And so when you hit that, it jerks,

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if you hit it just right, it jerks and the muscle jumps,

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and this is called a monosynaptic reflex. And it is all or none,

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it either fires or it doesn't fire, there's no gradation to it.

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And that's because of the most primitive part of our brain, you might say,

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or spinal cord or nerve system,

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these monosynaptic reflex mean there's no option on whether it

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fires or not. It just fires or doesn't fire. It's no, it's black or white.

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But as you go up into the spinal cord,

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you get what they call interneurons.

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There are three types of neurons in the body. There are sensory neurons,

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there's interneurons and motor neurons.

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Now there's special types of nerves that are going on into the gut,

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and there's special nerves that go into the heart, but generally speaking,

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they're either input responding or output nerves, sensory input,

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interneurons for decisions, processing, and motor nerves for output,

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to cause a muscle to change. But as you go in the spinal cord,

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the most simple reflex is a monosynaptic reflex,

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there's only one nerve going to another nerve.

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Then you have bi synaptic reflexes where you have a nerve,

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a synaptic junction, to a nerve, to a synapse junction to another nerve.

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And that's if somebody burns you, your hand jerks away.

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But the other hand also does it to balance it contralaterally to the other side,

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in order to keep yourself from falling over when you jerk away, it balances you.

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So that's a two synaptic reflex.

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If you go up into the spinal column with that same stimulus,

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if you hit that deep tendon really hard and it bruises,

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the nerve can travel not only to the muscle to make it jerk and also to the

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other side, to make it balanced,

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but also go up into the brain stem or up into the bottom of the skull

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you might say, the bottom of the brain, above the spinal cord,

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and cause the heart rate to increase or to cause us to feel heat

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temperature or something.

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And so now you have what is called a polysynaptic reflex.

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A polysynaptic reflex means you have a nerve, a nerve, a nerve, a nerve,

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a nerve, a nerve, and then finally a response.

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And the farther you go up in the brain,

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the more the number of interneurons between the sensory input and the motor

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output. So we start out like a reflex,

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but as we go up with all the more nerves we have,

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in a sense not just a reflex, we have a very complex reflex,

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and those nerves can be turned on or turned on, turned off,

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and they could be more refined in the response.

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It's like a dimmer switch instead of being all or none,

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it kind of can be halfway. And so the farther we go in the brain,

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the more we have a governance, more of a,

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you might say a dimmer switch that allows us to not just reflexively

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respond, but reflectively respond, to stop and think, well,

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how do I wanna respond? And so way up in the very front of the brain,

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the most advanced part of the brain, where the most amount of neurons are,

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where you might say the prefrontal cortex, the frontal part of the brain,

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this is called the executive center. Cause what the executive center does,

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it takes sensory input and it associates it with all types of

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experiences and then creates a motor output. And so there,

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we don't have just reflex, black or white, we have gray.

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And so let's just say that,

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let's say where somebody came and criticized us for instance,

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and if we had only one response, hit,

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then if we were in a situation where somebody basically said something to us

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that we didn't like, we would immediately punch 'em,

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and that's a primitive kind of response. But as we go up in the forebrain,

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the very advanced part of the brain,

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we could take that stimulus and we can think of hundreds or thousands of

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different experiences and scenarios in our head and then select that,

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you might say, and then respond differently, with a piece of wit,

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a comical response, a request for something,

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maybe a retaliative of response, you have a variety of them.

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So here's the principle,

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the more primitive we are in the brain or the individual

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neurons, the more black and white our thinking, we're kind of fundamental,

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we don't have many options and therefore we don't have freedom.

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We're like an automaton reacting,

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kinda like an animal if it sees predator or prey,

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it goes in survival and it runs after it or runs away from it,

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it doesn't have much gray area. It doesn't have a conversation.

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Doesn't take it out to tea, doesn't sing it to it.

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We don't have the things that human beings have.

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But as we go into the forebrain,

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all the way to the most advanced part of the brain,

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there are trillions or billions of options.

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And this is what sets us apart. And this forebrain,

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this executive center,

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this prefrontal cortex and some of the subcortical areas that are associated

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with it, allow us to have a variety of responses.

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Now what's interesting is in the brain,

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there are basically two systems of response.

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Two thinking systems. One is an emotional response for survival,

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that's like a reflex,

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a monosynaptic reflex where you just react without thinking.

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So you emotionally react as a survival response for prey or predator to run

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after, run away from it, like a monosynaptic reflex,

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but maybe a polysynaptic reflex. But we also have a systems 2 thinking,

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which is a little slower, takes time to process,

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you have to go through all these gyrations in the head.

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It's like the dimmer switch.

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And now what you do is you're now thinking in terms of,

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well how do I wanna respond?

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What would give me the most advantage over disadvantage in my response?

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What about the future application of this individual?

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How will I respond to them and their friends and their colleagues and how will

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it affect my business and how it affect my relationship and how will it affect

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my economics and how will affect my social standard?

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And now we've got all these associations from all the experiences we've learned

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through our life. All those can be associated with that stimulus.

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So I wanna make a statement here that it's not what happens to us that makes a

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difference in life, it's how we process it and how we perceive it.

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And the difference between a reception of a deep tendon reflex where we just

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respond without thinking and thinking without reacting

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is the difference in the advancement of our brain.

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So the executive center,

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the executive function allows us to inhibit those spontaneous

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reactions that we usually regret because we just, we reacted without thinking,

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and this allows us to govern ourselves. So the most advanced part of the brain,

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primarily the prefrontal cortex,

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there's other cortical and sub cortical areas that are involved,

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but mainly the prefontal cortex, this area is called the executive center.

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And this executive center governs the behavior below and allows us the freedom

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of options to allow us to act with wisdom,

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instead of just emotional reaction.

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We have in a sense emotional responses that are survival and we have thrival

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responses that allow us to accomplish great things.

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This advanced part of the brain,

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the executive part of the brain also allows us to take all the experiences that

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we've had in the past,

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take this new stimulus and think of all the possible scenarios of what could

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happen from it or how we could respond to it,

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and think out what is the most advantaged one and strategically plan that,

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all before we actually react. And so we may take milliseconds or seconds,

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three seconds maybe to even respond, but we now make a more graded response,

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more of a dimmer switch.

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And instead of having an emotional reaction where we're run by the external

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world, we're now run from within.

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So when we're in the survival mode and we're in the emotional reaction,

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the external world runs us because stimulus makes response.

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But when we're advanced part of the brain,

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we run us because we decide how we wanna respond.

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And that's the difference between emotional reaction

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and planning. One is reactive. One is proactive.

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One is reactive with emotions and one is proactive with inspiration potentially.

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Now you might say, well,

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how does that relate to our daily life and empowering our lives?

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Well in every area of our life,

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we're constantly being perturbed by our environment and challenged by our

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environment by different things.

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But we have a homeostatic mechanism in our brain to try to bring us back into

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balance, and the executive function, that's what it's trying to do,

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it's trying to bring us back to make a wise decision that's factoring in all the

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variables and all the associations we've made to make an active wisdom

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instead of an emotional reaction of, you know, and then we look back and go,

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well, I regret that. I mean,

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we've all been in a situation where we've been infatuated with somebody,

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and we're assuming consciously of the upsides and unaware of the downsides and

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impulsive reacted and then went, oh my God, it's a fatal attraction.

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And three to six months later, we go, woo, what were we getting ourselves into?

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We've also had things we resented and we thought somebody,

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our first impression is that somebody we didn't wanna be around them and they've

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turned out to be fantastic people, we didn't know at first.

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And so what we do is we have this subjective bias reaction first until we

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eventually see all the different variables and allow us to be more objective.

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The executive center allows us to not react, but act,

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allows us to assess things more balanced and be able to make a wise decision.

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It's interesting, Aristotle said that there were vices,

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which are excess and deficiency of perceptions, and then virtue,

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which is the golden mean, the mean between those polarities.

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And we had the virtue of wisdom and temperance and courage

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to be our true, authentic self when we live in our executive function,

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because it allows us to have way more associations.

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You've met people probably that are politically or religiously inclined.

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They are absolutists. This is bad and there's no good in it,

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or this is good and there's no bad in it. Very black and white, and they react.

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And they're basically in systems 1 thinking.

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And then you meet somebody that's more aware, more broadened,

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they see neither positive nor negative, instead of either positive or negative.

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And they're more of a gray and they have a relative view,

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they're more universal in mind and they have a more appreciative and loving and

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response that's thoughtful.

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And I believe that that's the difference of the executive function versus this

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primitive response below, this reflexes below. We have reflexes,

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or we have a reflection.

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We have either reflexes or in a sense reflection.

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The systems 2, the executive function is a reflective mind.

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It reflects, stops, thinks, anticipates, strategically manages things,

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strategically plans, anticipates,

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thinks out the pros and cons and then acts.

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And that's what gives us the difference between the animal and the human,

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or you might say the animal mind and the angelic mind.

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The angelic mind is we ever gracefully respond and think through and not let the

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world outside us impact us. I've seen,

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I teach a program called the Breakthrough Experience.

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The Breakthrough Experience has people come in there sometimes where they're

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highly infatuated with somebody and they can't control themselves,

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or highly resentful sometimes of people they just want to choke.

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And these are responses because of the ratios of perception.

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When you have ratios of perceptions that are black or white,

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highly subjectively biased, the primitive responses go off.

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When we have a more balanced view, the more executive function goes off.

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We're poised, we're present, we're more neutral. And when we're neutral,

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we're resilient and adaptable, and we have eustress instead of distress.

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But when we're black and white,

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if we're highly infatuated with something we fear it's loss,

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if we're highly resentful to something, we fear it's gain,

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so we can't control it, we're like a monosynaptic reflex,

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responding without even thinking.

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But if we see both sides and we see it neutrally, and it's gray,

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not black or white, we are able to stop, reflect and think.

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And that allows us to empower our life,

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because now the voice and the vision on the inside is louder than the opinions

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on the outside. The world on the inside, intrinsically is driving you.

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People that are driven intrinsically and spontaneously inspired, achieve more.

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They break through limitations in their life. You know,

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I've been teaching things about Breakthrough,

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in my Breakthrough Experience about values and the values,

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you have a hierarchy of values, and whatever's highest on your value,

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which is an intrinsic value, which is one that inspired from within,

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this is where you, whenever you're living in the highest value,

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your executive center gets blood glucose and oxygen and it starts to have more

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resilience, adaptability, it expands your awareness,

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you have a broader perspective, you don't react, you act,

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and you're more inspired by your life, and you feel more in a sense free,

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cuz there's all these options you have and you can make the decision

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accordingly. But when you're down and you're living in lower values,

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things that are lower in priority and not living by what's most meaningful to

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you, you're going into your amygdala, you're going into a reactive mode,

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you're like a reflex and you're now vulnerable and very volatile in this

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state. Now, any area of your life, as Warren Buffett says,

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until you can manage your emotions, don't expect to manage money.

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Robert Green says, until you can manage emotions, don't expect to be a leader.

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And in business, until you can manage your emotions, don't expect to be a great,

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you know, manager of people. And in relationships,

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highly volatile emotions usually cause all kinds of craziness in the

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relationship. So an individual that's in systems 2 thinking,

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which is maybe a little bit more slower processing,

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but more diverse in the response and is able to proact and love and

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appreciate,

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is way more profoundly empowered compared to an individual that's just an

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automaton reacting to the external environment like a reflex.

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So anytime you have a balanced mind, you go into the executive center.

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Anytime you have an imbalanced mind,

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you automatically go into the reacting center.

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You think before you react when it's balanced,

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you react before you think when it's imbalanced. Highly infatuated,

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you're going to react. Highly resentful, you're going to react.

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They're like a prey and predator,

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you seek it with impulse and avoid it with instinct.

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But when you're balanced and you see neither, neither positive nor negative,

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you don't have these impulses and instincts, you end up having intuition,

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which balances you, and inspiration,

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which takes you and do what you really love, you take the options.

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That's why I talk about the executive center and why it matters and why

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developing it is so important.

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So let's go through some of the constructs and some of the things you can do to

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empower your executive center. Number one,

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as I just mentioned is automatically living by priority.

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You have a hierarchy of values, set of priorities,

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things are most important to least important.

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Whenever you're doing most important things,

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you'll find out that you feel you're on top of the world.

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And whenever you're doing less important things,

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you feel the world's on top of you.

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We've all remembered a day where you had an agenda, you went after it,

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you knocked it out, you ticked off the boxes, you got everything done,

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you stayed on top of it through the day,

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at the end of the day you felt you were invigorated,

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it didn't feel distressful and you came home and you could handle the emotions

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or whatever happened that came home, anything that was thrown at you,

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you were adaptable to.

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You've always had a day where you felt like you got everything that outside

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world came upon you, opportunists, sales people, distractions,

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unexpected's, and you never got to priority,

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and you were a bear and you felt whoa, what a day? It was a futile day,

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a hell of a day,

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and you came home and now you're taking out your frustrations on the people you

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care about, that systems 2 thinking.

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So number one is to make sure that you live your life by priority.

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If you're not filling your day with the highest priority actions that inspire

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you, your day is gonna fill up with low priority distractions that don't.

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Low priority distractions are impulsive and instinctual reflexes,

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and high priority actions that are inspiring are actions that inspire you,

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that are directed by design and thought instead of just emotional reactions,

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reflexes. If all of a sudden you prioritize your life. Now, also,

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if you find out that if you eat sugar,

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sugar makes you go a little high and then it has low.

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It tends to accentuate low.

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Anytime you're doing something with concentrations of sugar,

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high concentrations, you're gonna end up with a high and low,

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which gonna put you down in your amygdala.

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Anytime you take any food substance to extreme, over eating, under eating,

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too much or too little of almost anything and not moderation and consistency and

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rhythm, you automatically create increasing volatility,

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which puts you in systems 1 thinking and makes you react.

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And then the external world runs your life.

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But if you moderate that and eat with a rhythm and consistent moderation,

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you tend to keep in the executive function and you tend to act and you tend to

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achieve more. You empower your life.

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The same thing with when it comes to overeating or undereating,

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if you overeat or undereat, fasting or binging,

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these cause the lower responses,

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cuz you get guilty when you overeat and then you end up having the licensing

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effect and you go through and create gyrations.

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But anytime you do something with a balanced ratio of perceptions with

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moderation, consistence and rhythm,

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you automatically help the executive center govern your life and you're in

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governance. And it's not the external world.

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It's not even your internal physiology.

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The external world that's going on is constantly perturbing you,

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it's how you ask the questions and how you perceive it that makes the

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difference. I have people in the Breakthrough Experience,

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my signature program which I teach around the world,

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regularly come in with these emotional vicissitudes,

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these infatuation resentments. And if they come in there,

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that means that they've stacked up associations with

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all these negatives and run a story and justified their story and dramatized the

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story about how bad this thing was, they're victim of history,

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and as a result of it,

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they're going into the primitive part of the brain and they're gonna react.

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If they see the person, I gotta avoid this person, I gotta get outta here.

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Or they have somebody, I've gotta have them, they're infatuated.

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Anytime you're extremely infatuate or resentful the world around you is going to

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run you. But if you ask a simple set of questions, okay,

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what exactly didi they do? Where have I done that? How does it benefit me,

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if I'm resenting it, how's it serving me? And balance out the perceptions.

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The more you balance out those perceptions,

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the more you go into the executive function, the more you're empowered again,

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the more you're in command and the more you're running your life.

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And so the quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you

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ask. If you ask questions that balance out the mind, you can move yourself

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to the executive center from this reacting center, the desire center,

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the amygdala they call it, and you can actually take command of your life.

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Now this occurs in all areas of your life.

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You're gonna meet people that you think are smarter than you or dumber than you,

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or more intelligent or less intelligent than you.

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When you put one on a pedestal, you'll minimize yourself.

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If you put them in the pit, you'll exaggerate yourself.

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Anytime you minimize or exaggerate yourself, you're not being yourself.

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And you're now in the primitive part of the brain reacting,

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cuz you're exaggerating,

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minimizing yourself instead of looking at the individual and realizing whatever

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you see in them is inside you and balancing the equation

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into authenticity instead of exaggerating or minimizing yourself.

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The moment you bring yourself into balance and bring yourself in balance with

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them, you realize they're just a human being with a set of values,

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you can appreciate them and you can act with them instead of react with

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avoiding or seek. And the same thing in business,

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you can meet people that are more business savvy or less business savvy or

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people that are doing things that support your values or challenge your values

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and employees, or customers that you admire or despise.

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Anytime you have these highly subjectively biased perceptions,

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the primitive one, desire center, the,

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the subcortical areas of the brain are gonna fire,

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you're going to react and then you're gonna possibly regret your life looking

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back at those reactions.

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But if all of a sudden you learn how to balance out your perceptions by asking

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quality questions, in the Breakthrough Experience I teach the Demartini Method,

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the Demartini Method is a series of questions that

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take you from this reacting state to this acting state,

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from this reflexive state to the reflective state,

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from the desiring amygdala into the executive prefrontal cortex.

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It's designed because what it does is it asks you methodically how to see things

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in a balanced way and asks you questions that your intuition is attempting to

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do to recenter yourself and repoise yourself instead of poison yourself.

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So it's never the world out there that's running your life,

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it's your perception of what's out there and you have command over your

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perceptions by becoming cognizant of the things you're unconscious of.

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And the quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask

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and the questions you ask can make you cognizant of the unconscious.

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So if you're infatuated with somebody and you're unconscious of the downsides,

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if you ask a question, okay, what specific trait, action,

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or inaction do I perceive this individual displaying or demonstrating that I

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admire? Great. Where do I have that behavior? Own it,

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100%. Then what's the downside of those behaviors?

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Which you don't typically do that you're are unconscious of.

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Bring the downsides and the benefits equal, then it's now balanced.

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You just went from systems 1, reacting to avoid or seek, to now,

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I love this individual, let's have a dialogue.

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They're unique individual with a set of values.

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If I learn to communicate in their values, I can get nice.

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If I learn to challenge their values, I can get mean,

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I have in a sense command over my reality. That's a powered state.

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In fact, every area of life, your spiritual quest, your intellectual quest,

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your business quest, your financial quest, your family love and intimacy quest,

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your social leadership quest, your physical health and wellbeing quest,

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all of them can be seen imbalanced or balanced.

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And if you react and have an imbalanced perspective,

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the Demartini Method is there to ask questions,

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which I teach in the Breakthrough Experience,

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how to ask the questions to re-center yourself and rebalance yourself to move

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from systems 1 to systems 2, from reflexes to reflective,

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and then you act not react.

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And then you're intrinsically driven by design and living by design instead of

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duty, reacting to the world around you.

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If you feel like the world is running your life,

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and you're basically a byproduct of the world around you,

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you're victim of history.

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But if you act and you realize that you can ask questions,

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balance out whatever's happening to you and change your actions.

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You have control of your perceptions, decisions and actions in life.

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You balance out your perceptions, you're in command of your actions.

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If you imbalance your perceptions, the world out there commands,

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causes reactions. It's not that.

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The people that don't know this and don't know how to empower their executive

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center and don't know how to ask the right questions to balance their mind,

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automatically feeling that the world's doing this to them.

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And they're blaming the world on the outside and giving credit to the world on

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the outside and it's all extrinsically driven with false attribution bias as the

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world outside and they feel that they're living in causality.

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In Buddhism they called it the karmic wheel,

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means that they're trapped in this world of reactions and causality that the

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world around them runs their life.

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And there's also a dharma wheel in the Buddhist construct where you are in

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command and you're living by a mission in life instead of these passionate

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reactions.

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And now you're on a mission and you're able to take whatever happens and balance

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it and use it to your greatest advantage. I'm interested in that.

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I'm interested in helping individuals master that.

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I'm firm believer that it's not what happens.

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William James said the greatest discovery of his generation is human beings can

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alter their lives by altering their perceptions and attitudes of mind.

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If I sit down and take something that you're highly resentful about,

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and I ask you the upsides to it and you go, well there are no upsides at first,

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it's all black, there's no white,

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and then I hold you accountable and look again and look again,

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you will discover that your subjective bias can be overridden by objective truth

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and allow you to see the upsides, cuz every event has two sides.

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And if you find the upsides and the upsides eventually equal the downsides,

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and once they're balanced, it's not an evil event, it's just an event.

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John Milton said, you can make a heaven out of a hell or a hell out of a heaven.

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It's based on the ratios of perceptions. And so when you learn how to do that,

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and you learn how to ask the questions by using the Demartini Method in the

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Breakthrough Experience,

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you can empower your life in any one of those seven areas.

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There's no reason why you can't take command of your perceptions and run your

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life.

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Instead of having other things outside you constantly cause you to react like a

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reflex, like that hammer on the knee. And many people are just reactive.

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I'm amazed.

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They just go well so and so said this to me and I'm angry about that and it

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makes me feel bad and they're basically blaming something on the outside

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and thinking that's the cause of their life. And instead of actually,

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or giving credit, this person's gonna save me,

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this individual if I believe this this is gonna save me from all my problems.

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This outside causality,

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this extrinsically run victim savior mentality model

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is basically a disempowered state compared to taking command of your

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perceptions,

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decisions and actions by balancing out your perceptions and then taking actions,

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not reactions. The moment we balance it out, we go to the forebrain.

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The moment we imbalance it and get highly subjectively biased the more we go

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into the primitive reactions. That was there designed for capturing prey,

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we need to accelerate with adrenaline to capture the prey and run after it and

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to avoid the predator. So in survival mode,

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we have to have those subjective biases for survival,

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but 99% of our life is not in survival mode.

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We're not gonna get eaten by a prey and we're not gonna starve.

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So we need to learn to master the executive function.

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That's why I teach that in the Breakthrough Experience.

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That's why teach the Demartini Method. That's why I talk about values.

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Cause unless you live by highest priorities,

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that area of the brain doesn't even get blood.

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The automatically the reactive part of the brain gets blood.

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Anytime you're living by highest priorities, the highest values,

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you wake up that executive center,

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you're less likely to be emotionally reacting.

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You're more resilient and adaptable.

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You're more likely to have a longer time horizon instead of immediate

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gratification.

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You're not likely to be overeating and consuming and addictive behaviors and

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things which are compensations for not living by high priorities and awakening

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your executive function.

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The executive function is the key to empowering your life.

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The executive function's the key to expanding your awareness and potential.

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Your executive function is the thing that makes you different from the animals.

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The executive function is the one that allows you to be inspired instead of

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de-spired and to be a master of destiny, not a victim of history.

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So that's why I took the time to go over that today,

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because I really believe that that can give an advantage.

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That's why I tell people to go to the Breakthrough Experience and learn the

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Demartini Method.

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It's a tool with a thousand applications on empowering all areas of your life.

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I believe that we're here to master our life.

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I really believe that we're here to empower our life.

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And any area of our life we don't empower, other people overpower us,

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because they're gonna run us.

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So if we don't take command and balance our perceptions and learn how to have

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moderation, consistency, and rhythm of perception,

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we're automatically gonna have the outside world run us.

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And nobody in the outside world is dedicated to our fulfillment in life.

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So if we're not balancing it and they're doing whatever helps them fulfill their

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values, we're gonna be a byproduct,

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an automaton reacting to all these misperceptions.

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So I'm a firm believer in taking the time to do it. That's why I basically said,

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if you don't empower yourself in intellectual, you'll

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If you don't empower yourself in business, you'll be told what to do.

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If you don't empower yourself in finances, you'll be told what you're worth.

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If you don't empower yourself in relationships,

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you'll be honey do things all over the yard and house.

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If you don't empower yourself socially,

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you'll be told propaganda and misinformation.

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If you don't empower yourself physically,

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you'll be told what drugs to take and organs to remove.

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And if you don't empower yourself spiritually,

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you'll be told some dogma that's maybe antiquated, that's irrational,

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that's anthropomorphic. But if you actually empower those areas,

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you take command and you end up in the driver's seat.

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And then you realize whatever is out there you have within you.

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Whatever's out there is neutral until you choose with your subjective bias to

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make it something of a heaven or hell.

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And having that position empowering your life is the path to power.

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And that's why I take the time to do that in the Breakthrough Experience.

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And I wanna share with you something right now,

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I have this new seminar called the Path to Power and it's increasing your mental

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mastery and for your greatest mastery in empowering your life.

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And the reason I mentioned that is because I want to take off where I just left

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right now and take over with this little presentation, this new seminar,

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I want to take what I just said and develop it and show you how to actually do

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that. And as a result of that,

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I'm gonna show you the mechanisms and the pathways and the questions,

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the quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask,

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how to ask questions to liberate yourself from those little reflexes that you

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don't have control over, to having in a sense actions that you're in command on.

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You can live by design or you can live by duty.

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You can live with foresight or you can live by hindsight.

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Hindsight is trial and error, it's most inefficient,

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but if you live by foresight and you learn how to master your perceptions,

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decisions and actions, you can take command of your life and live by design,

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not duty. Ontological, not deontological.

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And be inspired by your life spontaneously by living by what's valuable and be

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on top of the world instead of on the bottom of it,

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where the world's on top of you. So I just wanted to share that.

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Please take advantage of this Path to Power presentation. If you like,

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what I just said today, this is definitely gonna take it to the next level.

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And I'm absolutely certain you wanna learn the Demartini Method at the

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Breakthrough Experience. Find a way of getting that method. That is a,

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it's a gold mine.

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It's a tool with a thousand uses and you don't have to be a victim of your

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history anymore, you can be a master of your destiny.

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So this is my weekly webinar for this week.

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And I just wanted to share that insight. So just decide.

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Do you want to be a reflex or do you wanna be a reflective individual?

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Reflective awareness is the highest level you can have. It's the path to power.

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So I'll see you in this the path to power or at the Breakthrough Experience.

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Thank you for joining me today.

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Please take advantage of this upcoming webinar that I'll do.

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And until next week, I'll see you next week. Thank you.